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Out of the Shadows: Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day by Neill Lochery
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-02-22 | Author:Neill Lochery [Lochery, Neill]

17 Under the Bridge When it comes to hosting international events, the Portuguese do not do anything by halves. So in January 1988, the government took the decision to build ...
( Category: World April 6,2018 )
Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Ser.) by Beins Agatha
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-07-15 | Author:Beins, Agatha [Beins, Agatha]

Dear Sisters The Female Liberation Newsletter began many of its mimeographed issues with a letters section. Below the masthead information, which occupied about a quarter of the front page, and ...
( Category: World April 6,2018 )
Too Hot to Handle by Jonathan Zimmerman
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Jonathan Zimmerman

POPULATION EDUCATION So sex educators and family-planning advocates went in search of another phrase, which would avoid both the lascivious, pleasure-seeking tone of “sex” and the coercive, secularizing connotations of ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
Impossible People by Os Guinness
epub |eng | 2016-06-08 | Author:Os Guinness [Guinness, Os]

When Moses found himself in the supreme crisis of his life, after the revolt of the golden calf, he prayed what is surely the most daring prayer in the Bible: ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership April 6,2018 )
The Internationalists by Oona Hathaway
epub |eng | 2017-08-12 | Author:Oona Hathaway

THE VERDICT On October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal handed down its verdicts. It sentenced twelve of the defendants to death by hanging (Göring, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 6,2018 )
The Good Years by Walter Lord
epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Walter Lord [Lord, Walter]

1908–9 The Great White Fleet “Always ready at the drop of a hat, for either a fight or a frolic.” —REAR ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EVANS TRADITIONALLY THE UNITED STATES fleet ...
( Category: Americas April 6,2018 )
Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-05-01 | Author:Walter Pater [Pater, Walter]

NOTES 127-28. +Transliteration: Synesometha pollois tôn neôn autothi. Pater's translation: "We shall meet a number of our youth there." Plato, Republic 328a. 133. +Transliteration: Kai hos eipen erythriasas, êdê gar ...
( Category: Philosophy April 6,2018 )
Toward an Intellectual History of Women by Linda K. Kerber
epub |eng | 2017-04-06 | Author:Linda K. Kerber

Authorities promoted the ideology of domesticity and separate spheres to southern blacks, even when most still lived in slave cabins. Reproduced from Clinton B. Fisk, Plain Counsel for the Freedmen ...
( Category: World April 6,2018 )
Mafia and Organized Crime by O. Finckenauer James
epub |eng | | Author:O. Finckenauer, James [Finckenauer, James O.]

China Our interviews with mainland Chinese authorities and academics made it clear that, in their view, the most serious organized crime problems facing China are (in order of seriousness): drug ...
( Category: True Crime April 6,2018 )
Soaring Stones: A Kite-Powered Approach to Building Egypt's Pyramids by Cray Daniel & Clemmons Maureen
epub |eng | 2013-11-19 | Author:Cray, Daniel & Clemmons, Maureen [Cray, Daniel]

Chapter Five: The Meeting I've given a lot of presentations before, but this one was different. I took a deep breath, and after that I don’t remember breathing for twenty ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
A Dream of Red Mansions (Book II) by Cao Xueqin
epub |eng | 2012-05-15 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Cao Xueqin]

CHAPTER XLII. The Princess of Heng Wu dispels, with sweet words, some insane suspicions. The inmate of Hsiao Hsiang puts, with excellent repartee, the final touch to the jokes made ...
( Category: Historical April 6,2018 )
A History of Terrorism by Laqueur Walter; Laqueur Walter;
epub |eng | 2001-04-06 | Author:Laqueur, Walter; Laqueur, Walter;

II Fiction holds more promise for the understanding of the terrorist phenomenon than political science, but some words of caution are nevertheless called for. Terrorism has figured prominently in works ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 6,2018 )
100 Mistakes That Changed History by Bill Fawcett
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Bill Fawcett [Fawcett, Bill]

48 PUTTING THE WRONG MAN IN THE WRONG PLACE Command Decision 1815 In many ways, the British victory at Waterloo was very much as the duke of Wellington described it ...
( Category: Military April 6,2018 )
Turkey by Ahmad Feroz
epub |eng | | Author:Ahmad, Feroz

COALITION GOVERNMENT: RPP-NSP In the end, the RPP–NSP coalition was formed due to political opportunism – and it collapsed for the same reason. Both leaders had to establish their legitimacy ...
( Category: Middle East April 6,2018 )
Clean by Katherine Ashenburg
epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Katherine Ashenburg

Bébé learns to wash. In spite of the ringlets and nightdress, this is a little French boy mastering the elements of good hygiene, from braving cold water to cleaning his ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources April 6,2018 )

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